Latest News About GNU/Linux in Servers and Networks
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-03 11:46:23 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-03 12:06:53 UTC
Servers
Reuven M. Lerner starts us out this month, this time with information on how to leverage geolocation information in your Web application. Whether you want to give your Web visitors a local weather forecast or just want to present them with location-appropriate options from your Web applications, geolocation is a powerful tool. Since the Internet is global, it's important to know where users are located. Reuven shows how to integrate geolocation awareness into your Web applications. Dave Taylor follows with the next in his series on Zombie Dice. It may feel like you're just making a cool game, but it's really just a ruse to help you learn something. (Well, it's a cool game too, but you really are learning!)
At a cloud event today, Google announced it was cutting its cloud-services prices by huge margins — up to 85 percent in some cases. But that’s not all the good news.
Google also announced general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux SUSE on the Google Cloud Platform
Softaculous Ltd., the developer of AMPPS Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various Desktop and Servers, today announced the launch of AMPPS 2.3 for Linux distros. Ampps Linux will work with most of the desktop / GUI distros of linux like Fedora, CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu, etc.
At the Women in Tech Networking event at South by Southwest Interactive last week, Rackspace Hosting launched its new training program, Linux for Ladies, aimed at helping women get top jobs in the IT industry.
Cumulus Linux
Midokura, a global company focused on network virtualization, today announced its partnership with Cumulus Networks, the company bringing the power of Linux to networking. The companies plan to offer a joint technology solution that will enable customers to manage workloads on virtual and non-virtualized infrastructure with a technology preview by May 2014 and a GA offering by Q3 2014. This partnership further extends the new networking open ecosystem where businesses can have the flexibility to choose between various industry standard networking hardware, network operating systems and applications.
Cumulus Networks has announced that IXLeeds has chosen the Cumulus Linux operating system for the company’s upgraded Internet Exchange Point. IXLeeds is a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point (IXP) based in Leeds, UK. A bid process that included Extreme Networks and Juniper Networks preceded the deployment of Cumulus.
SDN
That said, Jessup stressed that there is still a core networking track that is still at the foundation of Interop. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is once again a popular track for discussion as networking professional seek to learn how to benefit from the new networking paradigm.
The first wave of SDNs broke data centers free from single-vendor "blobs," concede the architects of MidoNet, but they left a new problem in their wake.
In a Cumulus Networks-sponsored webcast SDN panel on March 21, Najam Ahmad, Facebook's director of technical operations, explained why the social networking website has embraced the open SDN model.
Ahmad said that when it comes to the reasons SDN makes sense for Facebook, it boils down to two key things: scale and agility. He noted that there is a lot of traffic going between machines today that runs over network infrastructure. In order to scale the network to meet the needs for increasing machine-to-machine traffic, the traditional hierarchy-based network structure isn't a good fit.
The Linux Foundation's OpenDaylight Project conducted a third-party survey that found 95 percent of networking pros want open-source software-defined networking technologies.
Forgetting to Change Default Password or Apply Patches
Security boffins at ESET, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing as well as other agencies, have found a cybercriminal campaign that has taken control of over 25,000 Unix servers worldwide.
Dubbed "Operation Windigo" it has resulted in infected servers sending out millions of spam emails which are designed to hijack servers, infect the computers that visit them, and steal information.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Claims That IBM Research Brazil is Shutting Down, Japan Impacted Also
- As usual, the corporate media won't mention this
- "GNU/Linux" No Longer a Pandora's Box
- Cannot even make or crack a joke... when you have a target painted on your back
- The "Nazi Bars"
- We don't condone or condemn the label "Nazi Bar"
- TV Programmes in Geminispace
- Sort of like teletext except more cross-platform
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- Links 19/11/2025: Several Sites Admit Slop Bubble "About to Burst", US Government Tacitly Endorses Assassination of Journalists
- Links for the day
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- As for Microsoft, it tries to rebrand Windows as "AI" something or "agentic" (AI) something because it's not selling well and Microsoft needs to engage in "creative" storytelling with shareholders
- They Want to Take Humour Away
- If society starts gravitating towards jokes being taboo and abuse/violence/online trolling being "jokes" (they're not), we're worse off and more like North Korea
- The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware
- it's a self-promotional plug for someone who came from Microsoft
- Links 19/11/2025: Google Nest Surveillance and Daily Telegraph Still Up for Sale
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- We Don't Keep Logs
- Not for any considerable length of time
- Wall Street Journal is Publishing Puff Pieces About Quantum
- For IBM [...] a lot of articles about "AI" are basically a form of spam
- Is the Lid Being Shut on Top of LLM Slop?
- It sort of "feels" like slop is becoming passé
- Celebrating Digital Sovereignty
- Digital Sovereignty is connected very closely to the concept of Software Freedom
- Your Web Site is Connected to the Net and the Server is Powered On, But Cloudflare Takes It All Down
- Anything outsourced means that yet another party can get things wrong, resulting in problems for everyone else "in the chain"
- The Register's Latest Slop Spam, Another Paid-for Article to Inflate the Bubble
- Remember when celebrities advertised FTX?
- Quite a Few Red Hat Layoffs These Days (or Departures)
- Remember that if there are Red Hat Layoffs, they won't be called "Red Hat Layoffs" but instead be "IBM RAs" or some thing to that effect
- Today is an Excellent Day To Remind People to Dump Clownflare (Cloudflare)
- If people think that Clownflare (Cloudflare) will improve uptime and make access better (it sure makes accessibility far worse), remind them of all the times this clown show goes wrong, taking down with it a lot of the Web
- Links 18/11/2025: Asbestos Fears, Delays for GAFAM Undersea Cable
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Apparent Red Hat Layoffs in "AI" (Supposedly a Strategic Area for IBM)
- What is going on there?
- Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People)
- Clients for Gemini Protocol are available for almost every platform imaginable
- Techrights' Assessment of Red Hat Layoffs in 2025 (Yes, They Happened!)
- In short, Red Hat layoffs did occur this year, but even when they did the media did not mention these (and those would count as "IBM" regardless)
- The GPU Bubble (GPUs Marketed by Useless Slop)
- "they're selling GPUs for the sake of selling GPUs"
- EPO Change May be Afoot, Keep Pushing and Hold Those Feet to the Fire
- Backlash is brewing and societal trends reinforce backlash right now
- Links 18/11/2025: CISA Advisories, Climate, "U.S. Layoffs Surge and Blaming AI is Part of the Smokescreen"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/11/2025: "Block Them All", Annex, Signed Commits, and "Cryptography of the Internet"
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, November 17, 2025
- Right Under the Nose of Mainstream Media
- That the media fails to cover the matter mostly speaks volumes about the media
- Formalities Officers at the EPO Face Uncertain Future, Administration Gets Asked About That
- They're being too polite (perhaps) to people whose agenda is detrimental not just to the EPO but also the EPC
- Spanish Focus Coming Soon and Maturity of Site Search
- We'll soon be focusing on Spain
- Slopwatch: LLM Slopfarms Seem to be Slowing Down Somewhat
- LLM addiction is a very unhealthy addiction
- Thailand: Windows Down Sharply, Microsoft Loses Share to GNU/Linux
- the Thai economy is strategic and relatively important in the region
- EPO General Consultative Committee (GCC) Agenda: Reduction of Staff's Salaries (Compared to Inflation)
- knocking salaries down some more
- Gaming Journalist and Guru Jason Schreier Says Microsoft is Indeed Behaving Like It Exits the Console Market
- Remember that many shops no longer sell or stock XBox
- Links 17/11/2025: ‘Agentic OS’ Backlash and Facebook ('Meta') Loses Yann Le Cun
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
- Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain
- António Campinos being 'Marcosed'
- Links 17/11/2025: "You Don't Need Animations" and Blocking Copyright-Infringing Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong
- Links for the day
- The Register MS: Slop is "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out), FOMO is Funding Us
- even former management (Editor in Chief of The Register MS) admitted to me it was aware of this issue
- What's 4Chan and Why It's So Problematic
- Incels and losers converge around online echo chambers
- Difficult to Win Arguments When the Simple Facts Are Not on One's Side
- Starting arguments over things when you know the facts (unlike money!) aren't on your side is a dumb move that can only ever result in severe loss of credibility
- Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That
- Did he manage to brainwash himself into this ideology wherein bigotry is in fact tolerance, inclusion, equity?
- Tribalism Injures Projects
- In Free software communities, there are many species and "breeds". Some developers are happy to work with everyone else based upon technical merit
- IBM is Googlebombing Its Way Out of Trouble and Criticism
- IBM is a dying giant
- No, There is Nothing Impressive About Slop Plagiarism-Enabled, Computer-Generated Images in Your Web Site...
- When people use slop they do not broadcast an embrace of innovation; they merely signal they're lazy, unethical, and unscrupulous
- After Denial (of the Issues) Comes Censorship
- Every critic of the status quo is "racist" and every criticism is "racism"
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, November 16, 2025
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- replacing proper, well-tested code (and documentation thereof) with slop
- More People Want to Quit Windows (Vista 10 is "End of Life"), Restricted Boot (UEFI) Makes That Harder
- It's widely agreed (a consensus) that Restricted Boot is a bad thing for GNU/Linux
- IRCNow Helped Techrights
- If you want to gain more independence or "sovereignty" over your communications and need help setting things up (no prior experience setting up/configuring IRC), go to IRCNow
- How We Managed to Make IRC Inclusive and Free Speech-Tolerant Without Banning People
- People in IRC seldom agree on everything, more so if politics are aired and especially in the wrong context/s
- UEFI 'Restricted Boot' Will Usher in Rootkits Into Linux
- Those of us who understand and value what it means to truly own our devices should definitely be alarmed by these trends
- Plan for European Patent Office (EPO) Coverage This Month, Next Month, and Next Year
- How much longer can European politicians ignore all this corruption?
- Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office
- More contact details for the German press - Focus online
- opensource.net Dead Since Middle of Summer, opensource.org (OSI) Still Leaderless
- At the moment the brand "Open Source" is misused so heavily that we have considered adding a new category to our Daily Links, focusing a lot less on "Open" and more on software freedom as a concept
- Photos From Richard Stallman's Talk in Argentina Earlier Today (Remote Talk)
- Dr. Stallman's talk went ahead
